A row of dim lights overhead doesn't illuminate this deep semi-underground passage, and the dim light only makes the atmosphere even more ominous;;;;;;;;;;;;; The dim milky white light flickered eerily from time to time, the damp and dreary air suppressed breathing and emotions, and the intermittent faint and noisy sound transmitted through the building itself. All of this was striking at Merlin's already tense mood, forcing him to stop his endless useless wandering, leaning his back against the damp and cold wall in search of a false sense of stability.

With his hands folded, his thumb resting on his chin and trying to support his groggy and drooping head, his index finger pressed hard against the middle of his brow bone, his nails digging deep into his skin, and the pain conveyed through forced contact made Merlin feel a little bit of reality.

Merlin doesn't have too serious masochistic tendencies, but when he's too nervous to help himself, he's still willing to awaken his sanity through some innocuous injuries on his body.

Merlin would be nervous, and that would be natural. No matter how many things he had experienced before, which ordinary people could not imagine, let alone experienced, it was still the first time for him to participate in a regional-level alliance conference and fight in front of hundreds or even thousands of live spectators and countless eyes watching through countless screens through digital signals.

At the thought of this, Merlin could feel the boiling blood pounding into his brain, boiling his mind, and by the way, evaporating calmness and all the associated things related to it.

Wandering at the end of the passage, Merlin tried in vain to find his normal self, but in the end, he was still controlled by nervousness and uneasiness, and curled up in the corner to the fullest.

"Okay, the first battle in the Grass Field is about to begin, and now it's the last three minutes countdown"

Through the transmission of the building itself, Merlin could faintly hear the voice of the commentator at the scene of the game after the double voice change after passing through the microphone and then through the building structure, although it was a little indistinct, but he could still barely distinguish one from the other.

"One of the contestants was Merlin, who knocked out one of the favourites, Miss Fran, in the pre-tournament knockout round."

A faintly audible voice reminds Merlin that it's time to overcome her nervousness and fears and take the first step.

"The other contestant has a lot of experience and is participating in the quartz tournament for the second time."

The narrator's chatter drifted into Merlin's chaotic mind, and it also happened to arouse Merlin's most basic contingency reaction, in Merlin's brain, about the opponent he was going to face next, the young man named Shinichiro began to emerge, reflected in Merlin's chaotic thinking, and gradually became clear until it took over the mainstream.

Just like the narrator's long-winded words, the young man in his twenties named Shinichiro is not a rookie who participates in the conference for the first time, nor is he a rookie who has just traveled for a few years, but a veritable trainer master with more than ten years of trainer experience and has participated in more than ten different regional conferences, and an elite-level trainer who is real and does not mix any water.

When he was ten years old, he officially debuted as a trainer, and because Shinichiro was older, he was fortunate to catch up with the era when the alliance used to implement the "pawn law", and at that time, when he reached the age of ten, he was an "adult" in the legal sense and qualified to become a trainer. Unlike now, the fourteen-year-old adult law, which is commonly implemented in all regions of the league, collected eight valid badges to participate in that year's quartz conference a year later, although it finally stopped in the second round, and the ranking also stopped at the top 128. But at the time, it was already a very dazzling and glorious ranking. Subsequently, Shinichiro spent more than ten years traveling to more than 10 regions, including Johto, and participated in a total of 12 regional conventions, achieving many results, and his best result was to be in the top eight.

Later, as a well-known young elite, Shinichiro returned to his hometown of Kanto Tokiwa, joined the forest ranger team set up by the Kanto Alliance in Tokiwa, and became a forest ranger in Tokiwa Forest, spending several years in dull and boring patrols. Until a year ago, the Ideal Country and the Rocket Legion took turns to make trouble in the Kanto, and Shinichiro, who belonged to the alliance, was also active in the front line of resistance and defense in the Tokiwa region and made many meritorious achievements. But what made him most famous was that after the disappearance of the two evil organizations, during a series of attacks by the wild Pokémon of the frenzied Tokiwa Forest in Tokiwa City, Shinichiro actively participated in the front line of the battle as a native of Tokiwa, rescued many people, protected many public properties, and gradually became the nickname of "Tokiwa Star", becoming a banner of Tokiwa people and widely praised as the "League Hero" launched by the alliance in the process of restoration and reconstruction.

As a representative of veteran trainers, Shinichiro is quite representative. More than ten years of experience as a trainer has given him a rich team depth, with the total number of Pokémon landing exceeding 100 and approaching the 200 mark, including a variety of Pokémon in more than 10 regions where he has traveled, many of which are even outside of Merlin's knowledge. This makes his team configuration full of uncertain variables and uncontrollable factors. And more than ten conference experiences have made him mentally and mentally and physiologically prepared, and there is almost nothing that can make Merlin opportunistic, but Merlin, who has zero conference experience, will be easily caught by the other party.

Speaking of which, in fact, there are some unwritten but conventional unspoken rules for such "old seniority" in the regional conventions, which are used to limit their power to significantly exceed that of the average rookie trainer. First of all, each regional congress will try to control the number of participants of these old seniors, set a hard limit on the total number of participants according to the percentage, and then use some dark box operation means to consume some of the old seniority internally in advance. Especially those who frequently land in one of the regional conventions are taken care of, so much so that it is often difficult for them to officially appear on the field. Secondly, for those veteran trainers whose team reserves are too deep and include too many Pokémon from other regions, the conference will often make some restrictions or notices, allowing them to choose all or more common Pokémon in their region to participate as much as possible.

If there are no special restrictions on these old qualifications, then the regional conferences will basically be contracted and occupied by them, and they will become garbage events with no new ideas and highlights year after year. And this is something that the league will never allow to happen, the regional conference is a grand event to show the strength and demeanor of generations of new trainers, not a place for those "old people" who have little room for improvement.

This time, after more than ten years, Shinichiro participated in the quartz conference again, probably not out of his original intention, I am afraid that there is an instigation or hint of the alliance behind it.

Maybe Merlin speculated maliciously that this guy was eighty percent here to mix qualifications and prepare for promotion

His mind was filled with cranky thoughts again, and Merlin finally suppressed the tension and anxiety in his heart, and strode towards the light at the end of the passage.

"Finally, the opening battle of the Grass Arena is about to begin"

Standing on his own red trainer's platform, staring at the rather thin young man on the green stage opposite, stretching his waist lazily with his arms crossed, listening to the boiling voices from the surrounding audience, and discerning the hysterical words of the commentator coming out of the loudspeaker, Merlin finally swept away the last trace of uneasiness and tension in his heart at this moment, and regained his calm state of mind again.

At this point, what's the use of being poor and nervous?

Merlin didn't really care about the narrator's routine unnutritious opening remarks, but took advantage of this gap to look at the grass arena covered with all kinds of emerald green vegetation two meters away from his feet.

The battle arena of the quartz conference is very distinctive, especially the four-attribute arena of the first four rounds is very unique, the reason why they are unique is precisely because these four-attribute arena are not the standard size of the general arena or the general standard arena is a rectangle of twelve meters by eight meters, nor is it the kind of advanced arena of the main venue, which is about ten times the size of the standard arena, which is basically equivalent to the area of the football green field, but a slightly smaller circular arena, with a diameter of about 80 meters or more. The perimeter is encased in a specially reinforced fence. Depending on the nature of the site, there are plants, rocks, glaciers or pools with a depth of more than five meters.

The grass field is a circular green space, the main body is a dense and compact messy lawn, occasionally dotted with many small flowers or buds, and there are a few bushes and a few small trees about the thickness of an arm in the corner. As the main green plant, the lawn is very uneven in terms of type and height, some of the grass blades are soft and brightly colored, some of the grass blades are tough and gray in color, some of the lawn blocks are only a few centimeters high and obviously carefully trimmed and leveled, while some of the lawn blocks are a mess of different lengths, and even in the relatively central position of the site, there is a piece of artemisia grass that is enough to be a person high.

Looking at this battle arena full of "sincerity", Merlin could only shake his head secretly and smile bitterly.

"The trainer on the red side is Merlin from Toyoyoshi Town, and the trainer on the green side against him is Shinichiro from Tokiwa."

After a bunch of useless nonsense, the narrator finally began to introduce the two contestants who belonged to the two sides of the field, which also signaled that the countdown to the battle had officially begun.

Merlin tried to clear his mind so that the narrator's cacophony of loudspeakers scattered around the field disturbed his rhythm, just waiting for the battle to begin. And Shinichiro, who was opposite him, was obviously not interested in this kind of routine pre-game introduction, and even yawned a big yawn and stretched a big lazy waist towards the sky.

"There are three Pokémon to use, and both sides release Pokémon at the same time, and each one will attack first" Finally, the commentator's passionate introduction returned to the final retelling of the rules, "Then now, the first game of the Grass Arena begins"

With the commentator's almost throat-rending screams, a crisp gong striking resounded throughout the arena, and at the same time, the young and capable referee separated the red and green flags representing the trainers of both sides and officially announced the start of the game.

Amid the noisy shouts of hundreds of spectators, Merlin and Shinichiro, who were standing on the trainer's stand, almost simultaneously clasped a Poké Ball that had been magnified to a released state with their dominant hands, and then threw the two Pokéballs with different appearances towards the emerald green grass arena almost in no sequence.

"Cutting" in a voice that only he could hear, Merlin softly pronounced his partner's debut words.

"Don't let me down," Merlin muttered to himself as he looked at the green and blue double-patterned high-level balls thrown out, and at the young man on the other side who seemed to be a little more energetic.

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Whew.,It seems to have changed weekly.,I'm really sorry for everyone.,But the objective conditions do seriously restrict subjective thoughts.,In short, I can only ask you to bear with the hard-working fans.,Thank you.